# Barack Obama's favourite books of 2020

The 17 books on the favourite-reads list Barack Obama shared on 17 December 2020.

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## Top 17

1. **Homeland Elegies — Ayad Akhtar** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel about the son of Pakistani immigrants in the US.
2. **Jack — Marilynne Robinson** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A novel in the Gilead series.
3. **Caste — Isabel Wilkerson** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction on America's caste system.
4. **The Splendid and the Vile — Erik Larson** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Churchill during the Blitz.
5. **Luster — Raven Leilani** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A debut novel.
6. **How Much of These Hills Is Gold — C Pam Zhang** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel of Chinese-American siblings in the Gold Rush.
7. **Long Bright River — Liz Moore** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Crime novel set in opioid-crisis Philadelphia.
8. **Memorial Drive — Natasha Trethewey** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The poet's memoir of her mother's murder.
9. **Twilight of Democracy — Anne Applebaum** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction on the drift towards authoritarianism.
10. **Deacon King Kong — James McBride** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel set in 1969 Brooklyn.
11. **The Undocumented Americans — Karla Cornejo Villavicencio** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Portraits of undocumented immigrants.
12. **The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel of twin sisters on opposite paths.
13. **The Glass Hotel — Emily St. John Mandel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel around a Ponzi scheme.
14. **Hidden Valley Road — Robert Kolker** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A family with six sons with schizophrenia.
15. **The Ministry for the Future — Kim Stanley Robinson** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Science fiction about the climate crisis.
16. **Sharks in the Time of Saviors — Kawai Strong Washburn** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Hawaiian novel.
17. **Missionaries — Phil Klay** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel about war in Colombia.

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